News archive for 23rd October 2020

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TES Podcast: Ofqual, 2021 exams and how schools are coping - Times Educational Supplement | TES Steve Besley's Education Eye: week ending 23 October 2020 - Education Eye UK's largest teacher union calls for secondary schools to move to rota system with children taught virtually half of the time - Telegraph Councils back Rashford and pledge to provide school meals over holidays - Guardian Feed the children: UK businesses answer Marcus Rashford's call for free meals this Christmas - Mail No.10 keeps refusing to praise businesses for offering free meals to children - HuffPost Free school meals campaign takes off in England – in pictures - Guardian Head expresses 'disgust and despair' at Government as children come to class hungry - Mirror The Guardian view on hungry children: government meanness, public kindness - Guardian 100k more laptops for schools – but access is slashed - Schools Week #CollegesWeek 2020: How colleges showed their love - Times Educational Supplement | TES Next stage of post-16 qualifications overhaul gets under way - DfE Headteachers left speechless by ministerial letter amid school meals campaign - Mail Coronavirus pandemic could create 'educational underclass' in London, Teach First co-founder warns - Evening Standard Cafes, pubs and restaurants defy Downing Street to offer free meals to children over half-term - Telegraph Army of local cafes and chip shops answer Marcus Rashford’s call and offer free meals for kids - The Sun Colleges Week 2020: How colleges showed their love - Times Educational Supplement | TES Asylum-seeker pupil who ‘looks 40 and has thinning hair’ pictured after joining Coventry school as 15-year-old - The Sun Free school meals row deepens as councils and businesses vow to feed children over half term - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Downing Street has refused to praise businesses offering free food to children after Marcus Rashford’s anti-hunger campaign - PoliticsHome "Falling through the cracks”: How the coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating the mental health crisis at UK universities - PoliticsHome Response to the second stage of the Department for Education consultation on the future of vocational and technical qualifications at level 3 and below - Pearson Review of post-16 qualifications at level 3 - AoC responds - AoC | Association of Colleges UCAS moves into PG recruitment with all-in-one app acquisition - PIE News New guide to promoting positive behaviour from ETF - Education & Training Foundation FOC work-ready IT and digital skills for students and apprentices - FE News LSE students campaign to save on-site nursery from axe - Nursery World A reflection on our Meols Cop misconception mission - Research Schools Network Edge response to the one year spending review - Edge Foundation NEU urges government to consider rota system for secondaries in lockdown areas - Schools Week You can now study Batman at this UK college - Times Educational Supplement | TES How Ofqual decided to keep quiet on grading algorithm - Times Educational Supplement | TES Enhanced mitigation measures for schools must be part of tiered approach to Covid suppression - NASUWT ASCL’s response to the government’s announcement on the next stage of the post-16 qualifications overhaul - ASCL What do the new lockdown tiers mean for Scottish schools, universities and childcare? - Scotsman Save Our Future - a global campaign - Education Development Trust | EDT Balding asylum seeker pupil who parents complained 'looks 40 years old' after he joined school in Coventry as teenage student - Mail Bill Watkin: The sixth-form colleges' champion - Times Educational Supplement | TES Meet Bill Watkin: The sixth-form colleges' champion - Times Educational Supplement | TES Universities' response to Covid-19: autumn update - Russell Group University students: Can students go home for reading week and Christmas? - Express Reflections on vocabulary teaching for the launch of Bridging the Word Gap - CfEY | Centre for Education & Youth Students and Covid is a UK wide problem that needs a UK wide solution - Wonkhe Secondary schools moving to a rota system - National Education Union School meals: Councils promise help after Rashford campaign - BBC Youth work training scheme 'improved YOI staff's relationships with young people' - CYPN | Children & Young People Now Robotic Owl which helps kids catch up with school after lockdown wins Gov cash - The Sun Expansion of the Job Support Scheme could help to protect jobs in the early years sector - EYE | Early Years Educator Use rotas to halt 'alarming' Covid rise, say teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Developing social and emotional skills: Education policy and practice in the UK home nations - Nesta Childcare provision hit by coronavirus cutbacks - Financial Times Investigation: Minister intervenes as home education soars - Schools Week Use rotas to halt 'alarming' Covid rise, say teachers - Times Educational Supplement | TES Schools are 'distanced' from public health over Covid - Times Educational Supplement | TES Free school meals are a hand up, not a handout - Times Educational Supplement | TES Sharp rise in primary pupil Covid cases, new data shows - Times Educational Supplement | TES No10 refuses three times to praise councils and businesses feeding hungry kids - Mirror Why is the UK government suddenly targeting 'critical race theory'? | Daniel Trilling - Guardian Marcus Rashford’s campaign isn’t an inspiration – it’s a tragedy - HuffPost Glasgow Caledonian University: 85-year-old's 'triumph' as oldest Scot to achieve PhD - Herald Scotland DfE lifts all provider T Level restrictions from 2024 - FE Week DfE lifts all provider T Level restrictions from 2024 - Schools Week Free school meals: 200 children's authors condemn government - Guardian How students harmed by 2020 results have been forgotten - Times Educational Supplement | TES Heads fuming at 'unbelievable' DfE school meals letter - Times Educational Supplement | TES Exploring our impact - Sutton Trust New interactive tool showcases Sutton Trust impact - Sutton Trust Sellafield Ltd investment in education and skills - GOV.UK RBS and Heriot-Watt University unveil new scholarship for BAME students - Scotsman Heads fuming at 'unbelievable' DfE school meals letter - Times Educational Supplement | TES How out of touch are the Tories? The free school meals row tells you everything you need to know - Guardian Colleges have key role to play in maximising SME innovation - FE Week UCAS acquires student mobile applications start-up to create a UK gateway for international postgraduate students - UCAS 'He does not give up': how Marcus Rashford became a hero to school kids - Guardian Gateshead College to remain standalone after merger snub - FE Week Marcus Rashford: public rallies behind campaign to end child food poverty - Guardian Covid cases in half of N. Ireland schools - BBC Commissioner: Ruskin College faces 'uncertain future' - Times Educational Supplement | TES It's hard teaching children living in poverty - Times Educational Supplement | TES Minister's aide quits after backing Marcus Rashford on free school meals - Express The 'word gap' between primary and secondary - Times Educational Supplement | TES Anger and dismay as BAME apprenticeship figures fall - FE Week Up to £80m of unspent national retraining scheme cash on its way back to Treasury - FE Week Scotland's school pupils deserve praise for their 'global competence' - Scotsman Modern Mary Poppins: inside the elite's nanny college – photo essay - Guardian 2021 GCSE grades could be even more generous - Times Educational Supplement | TES Covid doubles number of TAs teaching lessons - Times Educational Supplement | TES ‘Orphan’ school trust silent on CEO’s departure - Schools Week Mental health teams overlook excluded pupils - Schools Week Avoiding tough choices on exam grades won’t help anyone - Schools Week Podcast: Future, REF, boomerangs, student support - Wonkhe Why are we letting students cop the blame for Covid-19? - Wonkhe Is the pandemic still an extenuating circumstance? - Wonkhe Qualifications reform: Government announces next steps - Times Educational Supplement | TES Most teachers have no time to close pupil 'word gap' - Times Educational Supplement | TES Marcus Rashford helps out at charity that feeds vulnerable children after MPs voted down his plan to provide free school meals during holidays - Mail Students host 'ticketed' event 24 hours after group fined £40,000 for 'illegal party' - Mirror Man United’s Marcus Rashford helps out at food charity after MPs reject bid to extend school meals - The Sun Hybrid open access risks limiting researchers’ publishing options - Times Higher Education | THE Scientists can’t drop everything to work on Covid, says Nobelist - Times Higher Education | THE Top echelon of world universities finds room for new arrivals - Times Higher Education | THE DfE consults on scrapping quals competing with A-Levels by 2023 - Schools Week Textbook makes autistic people 'sound like toddlers' - BBC DfE consults on scrapping quals competing with T Levels by 2023 - FE Week Share the Love award-winner announced as Colleges Week celebrates the sector - FE Week Government to cut A-level alternative qualifications - Times Educational Supplement | TES Oxford coronavirus vaccine scientists will be rewarded for saving world - Times Degree gap likely to preserve white advantage for decades - Times Scottish pupils among the world’s most empathetic - Times Coronavirus in Scotland: Student link in new flare-ups at Robert Gordon University - Times Students across UK may isolate before festive period - Times Coronavirus in Ireland: Stress of school contract tracing could force principals to retire early - Times